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Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., For the best good of the human race, January 14, 1908

Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., For the best good of the human race, January 14, 1908 - Page 1

Jan. 14, 1908.
Ohio University Libraries, E. W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http:// media. library. ohiou. edu/ scripps
E. W". SCRIPPS
April 1st to Dec. 1st, West Chester, Butler Co., Ohio
Dec. 1st to Apl'il1st, Miramar, 81m Diego Co., California
NOT REVIEWEO CY E. W. S.
AFTt. R LiCTATIO" l
Jud€; e Lindsey's Juvenile Court Scheme.
Brockway's Prison Hefonn.
':[ enem. enw+ Ho use VI' ce.
lubercular Hospitals.
Child Labor.
All these subjects present to the mind one idea.
FIJ- lE = 1/: 350
That idea is the making fit of the unfit hy means of outside
influences-- influences that are not, at least to a sufficient degree,
existent in the individual} the subject treatment.
In considering this subject, like any other, we must hold in mind
that the exception proves the rule.
While there may be a small proportion, perhaps an infinitesimal
proportion, of individuals that it is proposed to make subject to external
and methodically conducted influences who are naturally fit and who only
find. themselves in the course of ordinary life subj ect to other outside
influences so coml" Jelling as to make it impossible for the natural elements
making for fitness to develop , it may be right to assume that til. e vast
majority of these individuals are inherently weak and so unfit that under
the most favorable conditions they would sink naturally from a hi.!~
estate to a low one without persistent and continuant support and direction
from others.
It is probable that the final accomplislunent of the greatest possible
effort would produce, or rather maintain, at a level but a little alJove
g~ bmergence, a large number of these individuals whose life and existence
and acti vi ties would occupy the space that might othenvi se have been filled
with the naturally fit, the self- sufficient individuals, the product of
-~ ( H)
the race. 1 " ."

Jan. 14, 1908.
Ohio University Libraries, E. W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http:// media. library. ohiou. edu/ scripps
E. W". SCRIPPS
April 1st to Dec. 1st, West Chester, Butler Co., Ohio
Dec. 1st to Apl'il1st, Miramar, 81m Diego Co., California
NOT REVIEWEO CY E. W. S.
AFTt. R LiCTATIO" l
Jud€; e Lindsey's Juvenile Court Scheme.
Brockway's Prison Hefonn.
':[ enem. enw+ Ho use VI' ce.
lubercular Hospitals.
Child Labor.
All these subjects present to the mind one idea.
FIJ- lE = 1/: 350
That idea is the making fit of the unfit hy means of outside
influences-- influences that are not, at least to a sufficient degree,
existent in the individual} the subject treatment.
In considering this subject, like any other, we must hold in mind
that the exception proves the rule.
While there may be a small proportion, perhaps an infinitesimal
proportion, of individuals that it is proposed to make subject to external
and methodically conducted influences who are naturally fit and who only
find. themselves in the course of ordinary life subj ect to other outside
influences so coml" Jelling as to make it impossible for the natural elements
making for fitness to develop , it may be right to assume that til. e vast
majority of these individuals are inherently weak and so unfit that under
the most favorable conditions they would sink naturally from a hi.!~
estate to a low one without persistent and continuant support and direction
from others.
It is probable that the final accomplislunent of the greatest possible
effort would produce, or rather maintain, at a level but a little alJove
g~ bmergence, a large number of these individuals whose life and existence
and acti vi ties would occupy the space that might othenvi se have been filled
with the naturally fit, the self- sufficient individuals, the product of
-~ ( H)
the race. 1 " ."